I did the whole film school thing – but not until I was 26 – when I got divorced. Jacked my old life and just went for it. I’m heavily tattooed, white, Irish trailer trash. Didn’t know anybody in the business whatsoever, nobody famous, nada, nout, zero, naught, nothing. And,...

As their press release reminds, 3 out of 5 of the most recent Best Picture winners and 7 out of 12 of the most recent Best Screenplay winners were all feature on The Black List before being picked up for production. When it comes to prestige titles, the annual survey...

Donning some sweet spectacles again, Daniel Radcliffe returns to theaters this upcoming Wednesday as beat poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings. The actor joins us to talk about finding that character and the hunt for great material. Continuing that theme, Black List founder Franklin Leonard speaks with us in an extended...

Over the years, the term “Black List script” has become much more prevalent when it comes to the reporting of new projects, thanks to the increased awareness of Franklin Leonard‘s annual list, one that just seems to balloon as the years go by. So just what is on this year’s...

If you’ve yet to check out Norwegian director Morten Tyldum’s 2011 release, Headhunters, then it’s high time you tracked it down and finally gave it a go. Not only is it one of the most brutal, gross, unique, and exciting action thrillers that have come out in a long time,...

Movie geeks (and screenplay wonks in particular) have become increasingly aware of The Black List over the past few years, the annual “survey” of hundreds of film industry professionals who vote on their favorite unproduced screenplays. While inclusion on the list doesn’t necessarily guarantee a script’s quality, it does carry...

As it says on its website, The Black List — the annual guide to the most well-liked unproduced screenplays floating around Hollywood — is responsible for over 200 scripts getting made into films. The unique project was created by Franklin Leonard, a production executive working up until recently for Overbrook Entertainment,...

Generally people in the hip hop world like to be seen as more than just rappers, or DJs, or whatever. In order to make it big in the hip hop world you have to be seen as a triple, quadruple, or fivetuple threat. So seeing as he’s already branched out...

Though he can reportedly be a bit of a handful to work with, whenever director David O. Russell manages to get along with everyone long enough to actually get a movie made, the results are usually pretty intriguing. And ever since his 2010 film, The Fighter, crossed over into the...

Leonardo DiCaprio and his production outfit Appian Way have been sitting on the rights to the novel The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic And Madness At The Fair That Changed America for quite a while, with intents to eventually get it made with DiCaprio himself starring as the...